The Career of Elmer McCurdy, Deceased
Author : Richard J. Basgall
Publisher : Trails End Publishing Company
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 29,59 MB
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780962222313
Author : Richard J. Basgall
Publisher : Trails End Publishing Company
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 29,59 MB
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780962222313
Author : Mark Svenvold
Publisher :
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 45,49 MB
Release : 2004-03
Category : Brigands and robbers
ISBN : 9781841153230
Born 1880. Shot dead 1911. Buried 1977. These are the critical dates in the extraordinary life and afterlife of Elmer McCurdy.
Author : Mark Svenvold
Publisher :
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 24,31 MB
Release : 2002-10-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Story of an obscure outlaw who, after being shot to death, had his corpse displayed in carnivals, museums, and as a movie prop.
Author : Christine Quigley
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 20,14 MB
Release : 2015-09-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1476613737
For many, a mummy is an Egyptian pharaoh, wrapped in cloth, found thousands of years later in a pyramid by archaeologists. But mummies need not be ancient. Modern-day mummies can be found under glass in special tombs built in their honor, in private collections where they have come to rest after decades on the carnival circuit, in dissecting rooms of medical schools, and in the basements of funeral homes waiting for decades to be claimed by the next of kin. Stories about the famous (Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Ho Chi Minh, Eva Peron) and the not-so-famous (Leslie Hansell wanted her body mummified to bask in the sun rather than being buried in the cold ground) mummies are told here in great detail, along with a broader look at the history and process of mummification. The book includes a comprehensive study of the successful prolonged preservation of the human body, and delves into the law and science of modern mummification.
Author : Mark Svenvold
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 23,12 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Brigands and robbers
ISBN :
Story of an obscure outlaw who, after being shot to death, had his corpse displayed in carnivals, museums, and as a movie prop.
Author : Mark Svenvold
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 15,35 MB
Release : 2003-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780465083497
This is the story of Elmer McCurdy, a failed plumber from Bangor, Maine, who drifted west to become a failed outlaw. He arrived in Oklahoma a few decades after the golden age of outlaws and attempted to resurrect the lost art of train robbing. In 1911, after a short spree of comically bungled robberies, a sheriff's posse caught up with him and shot him dead.In death, Elmer McCurdy accidentally found fame. From the Oklahoma funeral home that propped up his preserved corpse and charged a nickel-a-look, to the sideshows of the Great Patterson Carnival, where he was exhibited as a felled outlaw, McCurdy became big business. His post-mortem career in show business lasted until 1976, when he was discovered painted orange and hanging by the neck in a California amusement ride. Mark Svenvold has reconstructed the bizarre itinerary of the corpse through sixty years of freakshows, sideshows, carnivals, and exploitation movies, capturing some of this country's greatest fantasies and most elaborate publicity stunts.
Author : Glenda George
Publisher :
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 33,63 MB
Release : 1977
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Mark Svenvold
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 32,51 MB
Release : 2006-05-02
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780805080148
The author profiles real tornadoes and severe weather patterns over six thousand miles of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska, known as Tornado Alley.
Author : John Lindley
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,90 MB
Release : 2021
Category :
ISBN : 9781913329617
Author : Arthur C. Aufderheide
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 17,46 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780521818261
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